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Redox-constrained microbial ecology dictates nitrogen loss versus retention academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Meta-virus resource (MetaVR): expanding the frontiers of viral diversity with 24 million uncultivated virus genomes url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Meta-virus resource (MetaVR): expanding the frontiers of viral diversity with 24 million uncultivated virus genomes
Abstract. Viruses are ubiquitous in all environments and impact host metabolism, evolution, and ecology, although our knowledge of their biodiversity is st
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December 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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pacyc184.bsky.social
From Microscale to Microbial Insights: Validating High-Throughput Microvolume Extraction (HiMEx) Methods for Marine Microbial Ecology | ISME Communications | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/ismecommun/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf218/8342219
From Microscale to Microbial Insights: Validating High-Throughput Microvolume Extraction (HiMEx) Methods for Marine Microbial Ecology
Abstract. Extracting and directly amplifying DNA from small-volume, low-biomass samples would enable rapid, ultra-high-throughput analyses, facilitating th
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November 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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pacyc184.bsky.social
VIRE: a metagenome-derived, planetary-scale virome resource with environmental context | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaf1225/8356007?rss=1&login=false
VIRE: a metagenome-derived, planetary-scale virome resource with environmental context
Abstract. Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, yet their global diversity remains largely unexplored. Here, we present VIRE, a compr
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November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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bejalab.bsky.social
Diel study reveals increased nighttime bacterial activity and its connection to organic compounds in the ocean www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Diel study reveals increased nighttime bacterial activity and its connection to organic compounds in the ocean - Communications Biology
Diel study revealed fine scale coupling between microbial activity and DOM biogeochemistry in the oligotrophic ocean.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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bejalab.bsky.social
Opsins are phospholipid scramblases in all domains of life journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Capsule diversity limits #phage host range by affecting receptor-binding protein (RBP) interactions in capsulated #bacteria. @pilardomingoc.bsky.social &co show that generalist phages evolve host range via RBP mutation & recombination, but specialists remain stable @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48nvOqY
Graphic representation of the recombination events in the Sugarlandvirus I and J variants. Top left: Representation of the variants isolates in the different strains in the three lines. Genome fragments of each parent are represented in a different color. Regions with the most abundant recombination events are marked and associated with a schematic representation of the functional annotation and intergenomic similarity between the two parental phages. Bottom left: 3D folding of the RBPγ. The consensus recombinant region, which is associated with the infection of the K-type 47, is represented in light orange. Variable positions detected in the protein sequence alignment of the variants are represented as hot pink spheres. The table indicates the percentage of identity of the parental protein sequences in three protein regions limited by the amino acids indicated. Right: Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of Klebsiella myoviruses artificially coloured, showing their characteristic contractile tails and icosahedral capsids. Image acquired by the Environmental and Biomedical Virology group (Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Universitat de València-CSIC).
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social
The host range of generalist and specialist phages in capsule-diverse Klebsiella hosts is driven by the evolvability of receptor-binding proteins

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The host range of generalist and specialist phages in capsule-diverse Klebsiella hosts is driven by the evolvability of receptor-binding proteins
Capsule diversity limits phage host range by affecting RBP interactions in capsulated bacteria. This study shows that generalist phages evolve host range through RBP mutations and recombination, while...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
QnAs with Graham F. Hatfull | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
QnAs with Graham F. Hatfull | PNAS
QnAs with Graham F. Hatfull
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November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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michiwagner4.bsky.social
📢 New preprint on bioRxiv!

We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages

✅ 938 samples
✅ More novel ASVs

Primer choice matters 👀

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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kostchristian.bsky.social
I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.

Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia

Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.

Deadline: 11.01.26

More info:

shorturl.at/f1TuF
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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pacyc184.bsky.social
Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaf1159/8343512?rss=1&login=true
Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Abstract. Taxonomic classification underlies all biological science and is the basis for comparative analysis of biological organisms and therefore our und
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November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social
DNA extraction and virome processing methods strongly influence recovered human gut viral community characteristics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690293v1
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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pacyc184.bsky.social
metaTraits: a large-scale integration of microbial phenotypic trait information | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaf1241/8343513?rss=1&login=true
metaTraits: a large-scale integration of microbial phenotypic trait information
Abstract. Microbes differ greatly in their organismal structure, physiology, and environmental adaptation, yet information about these phenotypic traits is
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November 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social
Biological insights and methodological challenges learned from working with a diverse heterotrophic marine bacterial library https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.689180v1
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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ettema.bsky.social
Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
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November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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linsalrob.bsky.social
Long read Metagenomics, #phage and #prophage in the gut by Ami Bhatt's group. Beautiful data showing changes in phages over two years

#phagesky

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Long-read metagenomics reveals phage dynamics in the human gut microbiome - Nature
Complex prophage integration dynamics, including low-level induction, cross-family host range and transposase-mediated mobilization, challenge existing paradigms and deepen our understanding of phage–...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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fburki.bsky.social
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#protistsonsky
Single-cell genomics reveals complex microbial and viral associations in ciliates and testate amoebae - Nature Communications
Protist microbiomes are poorly understood. Here, the authors analysed single protist cells to profile their microbiomes and viromes showing that these tiny eukaryotes serve as environmental hubs for h...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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simrouxvirus.bsky.social
Some fantastic sessions being planned for ASM Microbe 2026, including "Long-term Dynamics of Environmental Microbiomes", and "Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Phages and Their Roles in Horizontal Gene Transfer". Get your abstract(s) ready, and join us June 4–7, 2026 in D.C. ! asm.org/events/asm-m...
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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jcamthrash.bsky.social
Microbial aerotrophy enables continuous primary production in diverse cave ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Microbial aerotrophy enables continuous primary production in diverse cave ecosystems - Nature Communications
Metabolic strategies of cave microorganisms are poorly studied. Here, the authors show that cave microbes use atmospheric trace gases hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methane as energy and carbon sources...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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pacyc184.bsky.social
Models and co-culture experiments assess four mechanisms of phytoplankton–bacteria interactions | Nature Microbiology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02196-0
Models and co-culture experiments assess four mechanisms of phytoplankton–bacteria interactions - Nature Microbiology
Mathematical representations of overflow metabolism, mixotrophy, exoenzymes and reactive oxygen species detoxification recapitulate dynamics in co-cultures of Prochlorococcus and eight heterotrophic bacteria.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Review: Evaluation of metagenome binning: advances and challenges academic.oup.com/bib/article/... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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sullivan-lab.bsky.social
🚨NEW paper: Benchmarking Hi-C for virus–host inference
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A clear baseline for anyone mapping virus–host interactions that establishes robust, benchmarked thresholds for Hi-C linkages.

Key results: 👇
Benchmarking with synthetic communities provides a baseline for virus-host inferences from Hi-C proximity linking
Virus discovery has accelerated but linking viruses to hosts remains challenging. This study uses synthetic microbiomes to optimize and benchmark Hi-C for virus-host linkage inference, and applies thi...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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daanspeth.bsky.social
Our paper describing the GlobDB is now published in @bioinfoadv.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/bioa...

The GlobDB is the largest species dereplicated genome database currently available, containing 306,260 species representatives.
More information on globdb.org 1/5
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GlobDB: a comprehensive species-dereplicated microbial genome resource
AbstractMotivation. Over the past years, substantial numbers of microbial species’ genomes have been deposited outside of conventional INSDC databases.Resu
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November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I became aware that the README of CoverM has the "Demo" section. I think it would be helpful for users like me who have been confused about the calculation methods of CoverM.
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GitHub - wwood/CoverM: Read alignment statistics for metagenomics
Read alignment statistics for metagenomics. Contribute to wwood/CoverM development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM